In the world of nonprofit leadership, one truth remains constant: every leader will eventually transition out of their role. Yet despite this inevitability, many organizations delay succession planning until it’s too late. This waiting game represents the single greatest risk to organizational stability and mission continuity. The Cost of Reactive Planning When nonprofits wait until […]
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Losing a long-standing leader brings a host of unique challenges that many organizations are unprepared to face. When a long-term nonprofit leader leaves that person is typically beloved by the staff, creating a hole emotionally as well as functionally.Sometimes this person is the original founder, other times they aren’t but they’ve been in the role […]
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In our line of work, we talk to nonprofit leaders every day that are making career moves. Some are entering executive leadership roles for the first time after putting in their time on boards or in mid-level managerial roles. Some are seasoned nonprofit leaders that are making lateral moves from the helm of one organization […]
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Are you ready to unlock your nonprofit’s potential and preserve its future? If so, you need to create a formal succession plan to guide its future regardless of who is at the helm! When you need to improve your planning or want to be better prepared for a leadership transition, use our Guide to Nonprofit Succession […]
Every day we work with organizations that are in transition. Some have already lost their Executive Director, while others are in the process of losing leaders that have been instrumental in their growth over the years. Regardless of when they bring us in, each organization is facing the same fundamental questions: “What do we do […]
Read More… from Why Nonprofit Succession Planning Often Fails
It is interesting and telling to watch how leaders respond to the idea of succession planning. Most staff and board members I have interacted with on the subject demonstrate two different responses simultaneously. On the one hand, there seems to be philosophical agreement that planning for the inevitable leadership changes of the future is a […]
Read More… from Nonprofit Succession Planning: Securing the Future by Nurturing the Present
Earlier this year our team wrote an article on leaving an Executive Director role. The response we got was that our readers wanted more, specifically in the way of additional resources that spelled out the step-by-step actions they should take to plan for their upcoming retirement or departure. So, we’re doing just that! The article below […]
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Change used to be something we chose to do. Now change is something we are constantly a part of whether we like it or not. A Forbes article on how high-performing nonprofits get ahead of change states, “A 2016 survey from the Human Capital Institute (HCI) found nearly 80% of leaders said their organization was in a […]
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